472 HEMIPTERA. 



sternum above the insertion of the posterior legs. Head with a 

 yellow band on each side beneath. Legs pale, with the tips of 

 the tarsi black; posterior thighs darker, rather elongate, not 

 much thickened, with a row of blackish spines along the lower 

 margin; posterior tibiae and tarsi wanting. Rostrum reaching 

 the middle of the metasternum, pale brown, with the apical joint 

 black. Antennae long and slender, as long as the body, brown- 

 ish fulvous, with the basal and apical joints very long. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



7. ALYDUS acantharis, n. s. 



A. praecedenti valde affinis, fuscus, opacus, pilosus; antennis 

 corpore brevioribus; pectore serie utrinque maculis luteis; 

 abdominis disco nigro, macula media pallida. ? . 

 Long. lin. 6. 



Brown, punctured, opaque, clothed with short hairs. Thorax 

 spinous ; spines black. Scutellum with a whitish point at the 

 tip. Coriaceous portion of the elytra very thickly and finely 

 punctured, with the nervures smooth; membrane semitrans- 

 parent, brownish. Margins of the abdomen banded with black 

 and white. Abdomen beneath with the disc black, somewhat 

 brassy, shining ; the sides and apex and a spot in the middle of 

 the fourth segment, testaceous, irrorated with brown points ; the 

 base yellow, with a black spot on each side of the second seg- 

 ment. Breast brown, opaque, clothed with minute hairs, with 

 the centre black, and a row of yellow spots down each side. 

 Head blackish beneath, with a yellow line down each side. 

 Thighs pale brown ; posterior pair darker, especially on the out- 

 side, and with a row of blackish spines along the under side ; 

 tibiae and tarsi testaceous, with the tips brown. Rostrum testa- 

 ceous, with the apical joint pitchy. Antennae considerably 

 shorter than the body, fulvous brown, with the tip of the third 

 joint dark brown ; fourth joint pale dusky brown, with the base 

 yellowish white. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



8. ALYDUS dentipes. 



Lygseus dentipes, Fab. E. S. iv. 143. 31 (1794); Wolff, Ic. dm. 



104. t. 10. fig. 98 (1802). 

 Alydus dentipes, Fab. S. R. 249. 7 (1803); H. Sch. Wanz. viii. 



99. t. 282. fig. 867 (1846). 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



9. ALYDUS linearis. 



Lygaeus linearis, Fab. E. S. iv. 144. 32 (1794). 



